June 16-21, 2018 Fort Collins, Colorado

Sunset tonight from the bike path.  I have some aspen pieces I am working on in the studio. Woo hoo, it is fun to make glass. 

Still working on the masterpieces. Getting close to the first firing. We had a wonderful dinner with Mandy, John and Jimjim tonight. It is such fun to see them. 

The masterpieces in the kiln at 1450 and 1100 degrees. The heat changes the colors, they will be back to green and blue when they cool off. I can't open the kiln again till tomorrow when they are closer to 100 degrees.  I fused a bunch of old earrings together and they are set in resin here. I will cut them apart and use them as basket centers. 

Mammatus clouds tonight at sunset. Looked surreal.

Sunset mammatus clouds. We got a big hail storm today. The big ones were bigger that a quarter, but smaller than golf balls. Sounded huge on roof and windows, but no damage that we can see. Haven't checked the bus yet.  

Sunset downtown Fort Collins tonight from the rooftop of Illegal  Pete's. Some artwork in downtown Fort Collins. I probably should take better photos during the day, but I liked the way these were lit. 

The aspen pieces are done. The top on Seasons has winter-fall and a fawn-buck in it. It is 17 x 7 x1 inches. It is for the Transitions glass show coming up. The Call of the Wild has an elk bugling in it and is 12 x 6 x 1 inches.  

Sunset last night from the bike path. I stopped on the way back at Old Town square to listen to the free concert and sit with Mandy, John and John.  They said the whole concert was a bit repetitive but the end that I caught was good. 

My studio exploded last night. Every surface is covered in piles. You can't even really see the 4 boxes of glycerine pine needles drying, the needles in a dye bath or there are three more tubs of needles above the work bench. I spent 4 hours of total concentration building the trees in my day/ night/yin/yang piece. Didn't get up from my chair or anything. Totally lost track of time. It is now in the kiln and I may be able to open in it in a couple hours when it cools down to look at it and start the next steps on it.